Release Date: Feb 8, 1958 Wide
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The Quiet American was the first major American-financed film to touch upon the powder-keg situation in Vietnam (still referred to as Indochina in 1958). Audie Murphy plays an enigmatic American who comes to Saigon, ostensibly on an economic mission. He meets an embittered journalist (Michael Redgrave) who is living with an Indochinese girl (Giorgia Moll). The American falls for the girl and promises to marry her. In retaliation, the reporter tells the communists that the American GI's economist
Feb 8, 1958 Wide
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Mankiewicz (who also wrote the adapted screenplay) does a fine job balancing romance, intrigue and war.
One of Mankiewicz's weaker films, a verbose, disappointingly sanitized version of Graham Greene's cynical novel about American involvement in Indo-China, with mediocre turns by Murphy and Redgrave.
The Quiet American is loosely adapted from Graham Greene's penetrating 1956 book about the Indo-China War.
Featuring a love triangle that is somewhat flat, there is some entertainment value in the conversational interplay between the two suitors. Against a backdrop of Indo-China warfare, with French colonial forces battling Communists, the film is set in Saigon and features authentic feeling backdrops. I read of some
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